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Roberta J. Dunbar, in a 1917 publication.

Roberta Johnson Dunbar (died November 1, 1956) was an American clubwoman and peace activist based in Rhode Island. Her first name is sometimes written "Reberta" in sources.^[1]

Early life

Roberta Johnson Dunbar was born at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, the daughter of Daniel and Louisa (Cartwright) Dunbar.^[1]

Career

From 1902 through 1905, and again in 1931, Roberta J. Dunbar was president of the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, a body of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).^[2]^[3]^[4]

In 1913, Dunbar was elected as a founding officer of the Providence, Rhode Island branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.^[5]^[6] She was also president of the Working Girls Club in Providence.^[7]

In 1928. Dunbar was serving as president of the Rhode Island Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.^[8] Dunbar chaired the NACW's Peace Department in the 1930s. She addressed the organization's 1937 national convention in Fort Worth, Texas on the topic, saying "We women want peace, and no woman of any nation is in a better position to bring this Era than the women of America."^[9]

In 1950, she was elected by the Women's Newport League to be their delegate to the national NACW convention in Atlantic City.^[10]

Personal life

Dunbar died in 1956, at the Home for Aged Colored People in Providence.^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b Frank Lincoln Mather, Who's Who of the Colored Race (Chicago 1915): 96-97.
^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1904): 308.
^ "Women Are Active" New York Age (March 16, 1905): 1. via Newspapers.com
^ "Women's Clubs of East Convene in Parley Here" Brooklyn Daily Eagle (August 19, 1931): 2. via Newspapers.com
^ "What the Branches are Doing" The Crisis (December 1958): 635.
^ "Our History" Providence Branch, NAACP.
^ Rhode Island, Office of Commissioner of Labor, Report to the General Assembly 24(1911): 404.
^ "Providence R. I." New York Age (August 4, 1928): 9. via Newspapers.com
^ Ruthe Winegarten, Janet G. Humphrey, Frieda Werden, eds., Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook (University of Texas Press 2014): 140. ISBN 9780292785564
^ "Women League Names Convention Delegate" Newport Mercury (May 26, 1950): 3. via Newspapers.com
^ Roberta Dunbar obituary, Newport Daily News (November 5, 1956): 2. via Newspapers.com

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1960s

1966	Glenna Collett Vare
1967	Eileen Farrell Ruth Hussey
1968	E. Doris Brennan Paula Deubel Carole Garnett-Wheeler Clara LaMore Janet Moreau Albina Osipowich Lois Ann Testa
1969	JoAnne Carner June Rockwell Levy Mary Tucker Thorp

1970s

1970	Jean Madeira
1971	Ruth Buzzi Ida Silverman
1972	Margaret F. Ackroyd
1975	Catherine S. Robinson
1977	Gertrude Meth Hochberg Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones
1978	Antoinette Downing Frances G. Knight Princess Red Wing

1980s

1980	Diane L. Coutu Florence K. Murray
1981	Anna Tucker Katherine Urquhart Warren
1982	Eleanor Slater
1983	Katharine Gibbs
1985	Olive F. Wiley
1986	Eleanor M. McMahon
1987	Sister Mary Bernard Sister Eileen Murphy
1988	Marion F. Avarista

1990s

1990	Ade Bethune
1991	Gladys Williams Brayton
1992	Mary P. Brennan Nancy A. J. Potter
1993	Mary Crowley Mulvey
1994	Lizzie Murphy Barbara-Jeanne Seabury
1996	Helen A. Bert Catherine Tilley Hammett Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf Arlene Violet
1997	Mary Dyer Sylvia Hassenfeld Anne Hutchinson Margaret Langdon-Kelly Maria Spacagna
1998	Helen Metcalf Danforth Ann Smith Franklin Sarah Updike Goddard
1999	Beatrice Oenslager Chace

2000s

2000	Doris Holloway Abels
2001	Prudence Crandall Doris Duke Mary Elizabeth Sharpe Harriet Ware
2002	Elizabeth Buffum Chace Leona McElroy Kelly Mary Francis Xavier Warde Catharine R. Williams
2003	Christiana Carteaux Bannister Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis Julia Ward Howe Victoria Lederberg
2004	Sara DeCosta-Hayes Lynne Jewell Helen Johns Katie King-Crowley Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall Harriet Metcalf Aileen Riggin Lila Sapinsley Sarah Helen Whitman
2005	Sarah Elizabeth Doyle Norma Ann Garnett Ida Lewis Alice A. Sullivan
2006	Therese Antone Nancy Gewirtz Barbara H. Roberts
2007	Anna Garlin Spencer Mary Emma Woolley
2008	Maud Howe Elliott Marjorie Joy Vogel
2009	Annie Smith Peck

2010s

2010	Kathleen S. Connell Susan Farmer Caroline Hazard
2011	Jane Stuart
2012	Karen Adams Eileen Slocum Mary C. Wheeler
2013	Wilma Briggs Billie Ann Burrill Martha McSally Lucy Rawlings Tootell
2014	Catherine O'Reilly Collette Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
2015	Noreen Stonor Drexel Gertrude I. Johnson Margaret McKenna Mary T. Wales
2016	Pauline Maier Patricia R. Recupero Betty R. Vohr
2017	Sarah J. Eddy Marie Rode Ferron Louisa Sharpe Metcalf
2018	Holly Patrice Wood
2019	Sister Mary Reilly Rose E. Weaver

2020s

2020	Sara MacCormack Algeo Roberta Dunbar Bertha G. Higgins Maria Kindberg Ingeborg Kindstedt Sophia R. Little Fanny Purdy Palmer Anna W. Spenser Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman

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